Package-tie.



E. F. FORSGARD.

PACKAGE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.1, 1913.

1,132,571. Patented M31123, 1915.

WITNESSES v 47 7 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS HE NORRIS PETERS C0,, PHOTO-LITHOH WASHINGTON. D. C.

nisirnn snares rarnrvi'r rides EDWARD F. FORSGARD, OF WACO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO JAMES BEER? AND ONE-THIRD T FRITZ BRAATZ, BOTH 0F VIACO, TEXAS.

PACKAGE-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 23, 1915.

Application filed December 1, 1913. Serial No. 803,942.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD F. Fonsonnn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Vfaco, in the count of McLennanbe securely held, without cutting or abrading the string, which would necessarily weaken the same.

Another object of the invention is to provide a package tie which is simple in construction, durable, efficient in operation, and inexpensive to manufacture.

'VVith these and other objects in View, which will become apparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the figures, of which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a package showing the tie in use thereon, the ends of the string binding the package being loose. Fig. 2 represents a top plan view of the V which the string or cord is arranged thereon. Fig. 3 represents a side elevational view of the package tie, Fig. 4 represents a central horizontal sectional View therethrough, Fig. 5 represents an elevational view looking toward the larger end of the tie, and Fig. 6 represents a view similar to Fig. 2 showing the manner in which the ends of the string will be disposed when the same are sealed. Fig. 7 represents a perspective View of a modified form of the tie.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the tie comprises a substantially rectangular plate or body 5 whose ends are turned over in spaced relation to the plate to form flanges 6, the inner edges of the flanges lying in spaced and parallel relation with each other, and in spaced relation with the plate, the outer edges of the flanges converging from the larger end 7 of the tie to the smaller end 8 thereof.

The tie is provided at the junction of flanges 6 and plate 5, with oppositely dis- .the top and bottom tie showing the manner in posed substantially wedge shaped recesses 9, which extend from opposite ends of the tie toward the central portion thereof, and surfaces 10 of the wedge shaped recesses 9 converge toward the center of the tie as shown in Fi 5. The inner ends of the recesses are gradually tapered off as at 11 to merge with the outer edges of the tie, thus forming at the inner end of each recess a substantially sharp jaw or grip 12 adapted to engage a cord, which may be inserted in the recess and which will become gradually clamped as it nears the inner end of the recess, but the jaw 12 is slightly rounded so as not to cut the cord.

In utilizing the tie, one end 13 of a cord may be passed through one ofthe recesses 9 and clamped in the inner end thereof, as shown in Fig. 2, and the cord may then be passed in the general direction of the tie from the larger toward the smaller end thereof, around the portion of the cord near end 13, and eX- tended out between the flange and the body at the smaller end of the tie as at 15, around the package at right angles to the first direction, and the opposite end 16 may be passed between the oppositeflange 6 and the body portion, from the larger end of the tie, and through the opposite recess, as shown at 17, and clamped into the end of the last said recess, whereby the cord will be held in place on the package.

The ends of the string may be left loose as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, .and would not be liable to become disengaged from the tie eX- cept byintention, but in order to prevent the undoing of the string except by authorized persons, or to give evidence to the fact should the package be undone by unauthorized persons, the ends of the cord may be sealed as illustrated in Fig. 6, and in doing so, the end 16 may be laid along the surface of the package and theend 13 then bent up and over its adjacent flange 6, and under the opposite flange through the opposite recesses, and alongside end 16, whereupon the ends can be sealed to the package as shown.

It is evident by my construction that any cord engaged in one of the recesses will be securely clamped therein as it nears the inner end thereof, and will be engaged by the jaw 12 and effectually prevented from accipackage to be tied, eX- tended through the tie as at 14 between one. of the flanges and the body, alongside the securely dental slipping out or" the recess In securing the string in place in the tie, various portions of the string during this operation will be passed between the inner edges of the overhanging flanges 6, and for this reason the ends of the flanges have been rounded as at 18 to prevent cutting or abrading of the strin In the form shown in Fig, 7, one of the recesses 9 terminates in an opening or eye 19 through which may be threaded one end the cord, and the cord may then be lrnotted to prevent accidental displacement or loss of the cord from the tie. In threading the eye, the cord may be passed directly through the same or may he slipped through the recess 9 into the eye.

i-iclthoogh l have described the preferred embociment of my invention, 1 ma y desire to in: re such changes in its construction, coml' tion and arrangement of parts as do not depart roni the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A package tie comprising a flat body poi tion having its opposite ends bent over the body portion in spaced relation thereto and to each other, the meeting portions 01"" the ends with the body provided witn oppositely disposed substantially wedge-shaped recesses terminating in gripping jaws, said recesses extending from opposite ends of the tie toward the center thereof, the edges of the recesses converging inwardly toward.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the end oi the opposite the center of the tie, the recesses being tapered from the gripping jaws to the surface of the tie.

A package tie comprising a plate having flanges spaced therefrom, said tie provided at the meeting points of the plate and flanges with recesses, said recesses having their edges longitudinally converging and transversely converging, and a binding element, means for engaging said binding element at the inner end of one of the recesses, said binding element adapted to be passed around a packa e, and means the inner recess for engaging the binding element,

3. A package tie providing a plate having flanges spaced therefrom, and provided with oppositely disposed recesses, the edges of each recess converging longitudinally and transverely, the tie being cut away at the inner end or each recess to form a substanially sharp gripping jaw directed toward ail recess st. A package tie provided with recesses,

said tie being beveled from its outer surfaces adjacent the recesses toward said recesses at the inner ends thereoi to form gripping elements directed toward the recesses.

EDEVAED F. FORSGAED.

Witnesses CHAS A. W. Earl-rennin, FRITZ Bnanrz.

Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. 0. 

